St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-02

poses another thing-submission to Christ
Ii Is one thing to long for Christ and one
thing to flee to Christ but the grandest OF all
is to submit when you get there. The curse
OF the Christian church to-day is that Christ
does not control and Christ does not guide
our destiny. There are too many people III
the church having their own way about
things. Why, good heaven! Heaven has
been appealed to more in st. Paul in the last
ten years to suspend the teachings of the
disciples and the prophets, and the enforce
ment of the commandments than all
the thousand requests which have been
made upon the interstate commerce
commission to suspend the working of the
law of congress. Laughter. Why, sister,
If God didn't suspend His holy law you
couldn't go to theaters any more. You
couldn't play progressive euchre any more.
Why, suppose that if you sisters couldn't
play progressive euchre heaven itself would
be no attraction. You say, "When go up
there If God don't have some cards up there
for me to play with, don't know what He
will do to keep me out of devilment. Laugh
ter.
Submit to Christ! A card-playing, dancing.
theater-gong church membership is good for
nothing that is good and holy In my town
where l live l denounced cards IN unmeas-
ured terms. They say, 'Jones is great ex-
aggerator." They say / eXaggerate every
thing. But tell you I can pick up men
in st. Paul and in Minneapolis who
used to live in these towns who played
cards with their mother and father and who
afterwards became gamblers and afterwards
were killed in gambling brawl. And can
go out to the cemetery and pick up their
bones and bring them before you-and will
defy earth and heaven to exaggerate the pic
ture. / will tell you where the eXaggeration
comes in. 1t is exaggerated according to the
way your pastor states it, and he is obliged
to sort of modify the thing for his crowd. Do
w raf hn Anlo ON 1ohfa Whry q
the papers in Minneapolis said that if one of
these pastors was to come out and say that
progressive euchre player was no better in
the sight of God than a black-leg gambler,
they would
FIRE THAT PREACHER
out of town. And L say to-day, with all the
honesty of my nature, that when the mem
bers of the church sit down and play game
of progressive eucbre, and one of you wins
the prize away from the others, you are as
much a gambler, and black-leg gambler, in
the sight of God as the young man that runs
a faro bank in one of these cities. Voice in
the audience: "And good deal more" A
good deal more, one brother says. don't
know about that; they would be If they had
sense enough One women said to me:
what would I do with my husband if
didn't play cards with him?" L said: Take
the little fellow out to the lunatic asylum.
They furnish all the idiots with cards out
there" You show me anybody that is fond
of cards. and will show you an intellectual
and spiritual starveling. You call me an
ignoramus and fool, but / never got low
enough down, intellectually, to enjoy
game of cards. Submission to Christ-that is
it. Oh, how love to see a loyal man and
loyal woman. That is just what Christianity
is. 1t is loyalty to Christ. had rather lose
my right arm or my head than do anything
disloyal to the grand Christ that has done so
much for me. That is the way Christians
IL. 4-Iy-
theater-going crowd go to church and open
their mouths and sing "Surely the Captain
May Depend on Me-" Depend on you for
what? Laughter. Depend on you to ''cut
and shoot" as the boy said whenever there
is any trouble up-to cut home and shoot
under the bed. Submission to Christ" 1t
means-Lord Jesus, my time, my talent, my
energies, my life, my all, l give to Thee and
they shall be Thine forever. That is it.
There are good many Christians who
remind me of little boat on the
Causa river. 1t had the smallest little en-
gine and great big, long whistle, and when
it is running up stream and the engineer
blows the whistle the little boat has to stop.
because there isn't enough steam. 1t can't
run and blow at once. There is many a
Methodist in this country who can't run and
blow all at once. He just takes it all out in
blowing. Laughter and applause. Some of
you good sober-sided people, if you want to
laugh a little this afternoon, we aint at
church--don'J forget that we are in Il rink.
Turn loose and laugh; it will do you good.
There is many hide-bound member of
church in this country who peeds the curry
comb as often as they need corn. When a
horse has unsound spots in him he don't want
any curry-comb in his he
WILL BEGIN TO KICK
as soon as you get to him. But if he is sound
and all right leans up against the curry
comb.
I CIR ir,ro f1,;c hon
the Salvation army; that was not much of an
army-only about three in the great army
and tell you one thing, I'd rather be the
homliest and poorest Salvation army soldier
that ever marched through this town bare
footed, with red shirt and red breecheS,
rather be one of them than to be the most
dignified member of the church that ever
lived in this town and be as no-account as you
members of the church are in this town. God
bless the Salvation army. Laughter. am
their friend, and tell you why l am their
friend. 1t is because they look like
they were trying to do something. You
Methodists should be the last people to talk
about the Salvation army. 1t amt been
hundred years since you were wandering
about as they are, only you didn' have money
enough to buy tambOurine or drum. The
only use that God has got for the Salvation
army in this town is the fact that He has so
many no-account, triting Methodists, and
Baptists that they won't do what he wants.
He will run the Salvation army and the two
mountebanks, Jones and Small to do the
work you trifing members of the church
ought to do. Tell you where got the name
of mountebank. 1t was just taking photo
graphs of just such crowds as this. They
looked so ridiculous they thought it was my
picture instead of their own they were
gggling at. / am just enough of mounte-
bank to go down on q level with my crowd
every time I strike them. Sometimes don't
stick TO my text but l always stick to my
crowd. 1 haven't called any names this after
noon, but every fellow
KNOWS HIS NUMBER.
as soon as you hit it-don't he? Laughter.
have conscious loyalty that had never
saw dog following two men home, Il wouldn't
know whose dog it was until the men parted
then the dog would follow his master. You
have your prayer meetings here Wednesday
night. If see man starting down town, /
don't know whether he is going to church or
the theater watch him till he comes to the
point where the roads separate. If you go to
the theater that night you are the devils dog,
and there is no use lying about it.
If every Sabbath school teacher and worker
will take this Christ we have preached and
get him in your own life, and never stop
until you get Him in every heart in the
school, we are going TO revolutionize the
grand old state with the Sabbath schools.
The evangelist then proceeded to work
over the ground in his own peculiar way,
previous to making collection for the Sun
day school, and started the list by subscrib
ing $25 himself. The total collection
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